 Keïta initially worked as a middleman trader, buying fish and rice from Mopti and Dioro and reselling them in "Bamako".In 1960, he managed to obtain a job with the "National Theater" (then under the "Haut Commissariat à la jeunesse" - the High Commission for Youth).Under the auspices of the "Commissariat", Keïta recorded his first radio broadcast for Malian radio in 1967.